On the afternoon of the day when Jiang Lihua talked to Zhang Yunqi, the parents of the thirteen boys in class 168 who had brought their own homemade small stoves rushed to the school after receiving the notice.

Throughout the afternoon and evening, the boys and their parents talked to Jiang Lihua, the director of academic affairs, Luo Dahai, and higher-level school leaders.

The thirteen boys were all miserable, almost none of them were not scolded by their parents, the children's education in that era was relatively rough and simple, Wang Xiaokai told Zhang Yunqi that during the conversation, several boys were beaten by their parents, and Yu Renli in the class was the worst, and his mouth was bleeding when he was beaten by his father, and Luo Dahai and Jiang Lihua persuaded him later.

To the dismay of the school authorities, hours of conversation yielded no results, and no one admitted that they had started the fire. This was no different from Zhang Yunqi's expectations, and he even felt that it was a big mistake for the school leaders to call the parents of this group of students to the school.

The reason is simple.

The two people who accidentally started the fire must be among the thirteen boys, after all, they are young, their minds are not so firm, and they are afraid of things, if the scrutiny is increased, maybe the person who really caused the fire will be shaken and admit it.

Now that their parents are here, they have the backbone, and these parents must have learned about the situation in private, and they have been angry with their cubs, teaching them how to deal with the school's investigation, so that the school has no evidence, and the possibility of trying to find out becomes even lower.

In fact, as Zhang Yunqi expected, this group of parents scolded or beat their cubs, just to show an attitude to the school about the problem of them carrying a homemade small stove without permission, but no one admitted that they caused the fire.

The next day, the school had no choice but to let the parents of the thirteen students leave the school, but the results of the fire were not released, and the fire incident was not reported by the TV and newspaper media in Jiangchuan City.

Zhang Yunqi remembers that on the night of the fire, a media reporter came to interview, obviously, although the school's senior management has been calm these days, and has not given an explanation to students, parents and the outside world, but in private they must be using various relationships to control the fermentation of public opinion.

In the school, the public opinion of the fire is uncontrollable, as long as the school leaders do not give an official statement for a day, then the gossip about the fire will spread more and more, in the days when the fire occurred, almost every student is discussing this matter, all kinds of internal news is circulating among everyone, class 168 has become a famous tourist attraction in the city's No. 1 Middle School, during recess, there are always students who come to see the strange.

Zhang Yunqi has also become a rare animal.

During recess, students often walk up to the windows of their classes, point at him and say to the strange-looking classmates around him, "It's him!"

Zhang Yunqi was affected a lot, whether it was class, eating or walking on the road, people often looked at him with a curious gaze, but this fire did not seem to have any impact on Lin Cong, he went to class as usual every day, because most of the students' books in class 168 were destroyed, and every class was a self-study class.

Every day in math class, Lin Cong sat on the podium and read a book, and occasionally a few female classmates went up to ask questions, and he would explain the analysis in detail.

When no one asked, he slowly flipped through the book in his hand, and his face was light.

In the classroom, only Zhang Yunqi, who has a lot of experience, can notice that Lin Cong is different from before, in the past, when explaining topics to female students, he liked to stare at each other's eyes and smile, but now, he never looks at girls more.

One day in a math class, Zhang Yunqi found that Lin Cong, who had always liked casual simplicity, suddenly wore a white shirt and a black suit, a steady blue tie, and a stack of materials in his hand, looking very handsome.

In the first half of the class, as usual, Lin Cong sat on the podium to read a book and carefully explained the topics to his classmates.

When there were still a few minutes before the end of class, Lin Cong started to divide the stack of materials on the podium into several parts, and asked the class leader Lin Yueying to distribute them to each student.

After the information was distributed, Lin Cong clapped his palms, and after attracting the attention of his classmates, he said: "This information is my math notes when I was in high school, and it can be regarded as my personal learning experience. ”

Lin Cong said: "Finally, I want to say that the three years of high school are very hard, but how can you see a more magnificent life without enduring some hardships? ”

The bell rings for the end of class.

Lin Cong smiled, put away the books on the podium, and left the classroom under the slightly stunned gazes of his classmates.

Zhang Yunqi looked at him silently, saw his smile suppressing volcano-like emotions, and saw that his departing back was full of the goodness and decadence of dying people.

The next day's math class, Lin Cong did not come to class.

The students in the class became more and more confused, but the class teacher did not explain until the afternoon of the same day, when the school issued a notice about the handling of the fire in class 168 on January 13, 1993.

On the way to eat in the cafeteria, Zhang Yunqi saw this notice on the school's bulletin board, the content of which was very concise and clear, and directly dealt with a group of parties.

Lin Cong, as the teacher of class 168 on the night of the incident, left his post without authorization during the self-study on the night of the incident, went out to have dinner with friends, and was seriously derelict in his duties, and failed to supervise the students, resulting in a fire, with heavy responsibility, and was directly removed from the teaching team.

The 13 boarders of Class 168 disobeyed the school order when the school explicitly prohibited the production of small stoves, and brought homemade small stoves to the classroom to participate in evening self-study on the night of the incident, resulting in a fire, and all of them were punished with major demerits.

This punishment result did not cause an uproar in the school, on the contrary, it put an end to a lot of gossip that became more and more outrageous, but in this fire, Lin Cong took such a big responsibility and was directly dismissed, which surprised many students.

The only one who is not surprised is probably Zhang Yunqi.

Zhang Yunqi knew that the reason why Lin Cong was dismissed was not the fire at all, the fire was just an excuse for his dismissal and a reason to give the student's family an explanation, because two days after the notice was issued, Zhao Yali from class 170 dropped out of school.

Apparently, the school found out about them.

The thirteen students of class 168 were given a major demerit, this punishment is very severe, they feel very uncomfortable, at least Zhang Yunqi is like this on the surface, as for which two people breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, or even secretly proud, it is unknown.

In the next few days, Zhang Yunqi also found that there were gradually gaps, contradictions and suspicions between the thirteen boys who were originally monolithic.

One day in physical education class, Zhang Yunqi and a group of boys in the class played basketball together, at that time Yang Wei and Yu Renli were in a team, in the process of an attack, Yang Wei did not pass the ball to Yu Renli who was in the vacant position, Yu Renli said Yang Wei two sentences, Yang Wei immediately refuted Yu Renli.

The two argued and quarreled.

Yang Wei, who was embarrassed and angry, pointed at Yu Renli's nose and scolded: "Don't fucking think you're a good person, I really don't think I guess it, you caused the fire a few days ago, you don't dare to do it, everyone will follow it!"

Yu Renli said angrily: "You nonsense! Is there any evidence? I still think you caused the fire!"

"Nima, bloody mouth!"

Yang Wei rushed up and scuffled with Yu Renli, and the boys in the class were all watching from the side, especially those who were punished because of the fire, they all stared at Yu Renli with an indescribable gaze.